Label-holder



H. BAKER. Label-Holder.

Pa't ented April 13,1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY BAKER, OF OATSKILL, NEW YORK.

LABEL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,474, dated April 13, 1880.

Application filed September 8, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BAKER, of Catskill, in the county of Greene and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gard-Holders for Trunks, 850., of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a card-holder which maybe attached to a trunk or other article to receive and hold a card indicating the owner of the trunk and its destination, and which holds the cardby an elastic or yielding pressure upon the face thereof.

To this end my invention consists in a cardholder oomposed of two strips of sheet metal adapted to be secured toasupport, so as to overlap opposite edges of a card and clamp it between them and said support, and severally having transversely-extending lugs or ears, in which are slots, also extending transversely to the length of the strips, through which pass securing-screws, whereby the strips may be adjusted bodily toward and from each other to suit cards of different widths, and without detachment from the trunk or other article to which they are attached.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a face view of my card-holder applied to a support, which may consist of a portion of a trunk or other article; and Fig. 2 represents a transverse section on the dotted line a: m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both the figures.

A designates a support, which consists of a portion of a trunk or other article to which the card-holder is to be secured. B designates the two pieces of which my holder is composed, and which serve,in conjunction with the support A, to hold a card, O,which may have inscribed upon it the name and destination of the person owning the trunk or other article.

The pieces B are composed of some flexible -material, such as sheet metal, and overlap the card upon its opposite sides, and hold the same by their elastic pressure against the face of the support A. The pieces B are also preferably corrugated at B, so as to enable their edges to bite on the card, and they may be punctured, as at a, forming burrs or teeth for more securely holding the card.

The pieces B may be secured to a trunkor other article by means of screws b, which pass through slots 0, whereby provision is afforded for adjusting the pieces bodily toward and from each other without detaching them from their support.

The pieces B press upon the card with sufficient force to hold it against accidental displacement; but when it is desired to change the card only a little force is required to pull it out and insert a new one.

As the pieces of which my holder is composed maybe cut or stamped from sheet metal, they may be very cheaply made, and as they project but little from the face of the trunk or article to which they are secured there is little danger of clothing catching upon them and being torn, or of their being knocked off.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A card-holder composed of two strips of sheet metal adapted to be secured to a support, so as to overlap the opposite edges of a card and clamp it between them and said support, and severallyhaving transversely-extending lugs or cars, in which are slots, also extend ing transversely to the length of the strips, through which pass securing-screws, whereby the strips may be adjusted bodily toward and from each other to suit cards of different widths, and without detachment from the trunk or other article to which they are attached, substantially as specified.

HENRY BAKER.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL A. BAKER, WILLIAM GILBERT. 

